10-letter words containing bo
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- litter box — a sanitary indoor box for pets (esp cats) to dispose urine and faeces
- little boy — the code name for the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.
- lobotomies — Plural form of lobotomy.
- lobotomise — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobotomist — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobotomize — to perform a lobotomy on.
- logic bomb — (programming, security) Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or operating system that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met. Compare back door.
- longbowman — an archer who uses a longbow.
- looseboxes — Plural form of loosebox.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- luluabourg — former name of Kananga.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- luxembourg — a grand duchy surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium. 999 sq. mi. (2585 sq. km).
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- malar bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- malar-bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- mama's boy — a boy or man showing excessive attachment to or dependence on his mother.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- marrowbone — A bone containing edible marrow.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- mess about — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metabolite — a product of metabolic action.
- metabolize — (of a body or organ) process (a substance) by metabolism.
- metabolome — (biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of metabolites found in a biological sample; especially that found in a person's body under normal conditions, and when suffering from a disease.
- mills bomb — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
- mobocratic — Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
- moldboards — Plural form of moldboard.
- mood board — a board used by designers on which samples of various colours and textures are mounted to help in deciding which elements complement each other
- motor-boat — a boat propelled by an inboard or outboard motor.
- motorboats — Plural form of motorboat.
- mouldboard — A curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow.
- mount bona — a mountain in S Alaska, in the Wrangell Mountains. Height: 5005 m (16 420 ft)
- mount nebo — a mountain in Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: the highest point of a ridge known as Pisgah, from which Moses viewed the Promised Land just before his death (Deuteronomy 34:1). Height: 802 m (2631 ft)
- move about — fidget, be restless
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- muni bonds — Muni bonds are bonds issued by local municipal governments on which the interest is often tax-free.
- nabokovian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
- nabonassar — died 733? b.c, king of Babylon 747?–733?.
- narrowboat — A canal boat less than 7 feet (2.1 m) wide with a maximum length of 70 feet (21.3 m) and steered with a tiller rather than a wheel.
- narrowbody — (aeronautics) An airliner capable of seating six or less passengers in a single row of economy seating, with one aisle.
- needlebook — A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
- negri body — any of the microscopic bodies found in the nerve cells of animals affected with rabies.
- neighbored — Simple past tense and past participle of neighbor.
- neighborly — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.